Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6
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Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6
Ballads, English; Songs, English
This is the Lady _Frances Sidney_,
The Countess of _Suffolk_ was she;
And this the Lord _Dudley Carleton_ is,
And then they look up and see.
Sir _Thomas Brumley_ lieth here,
Death would him not reprieve;
With his four Sons, and Daughters four,
That once were all alive.
The next is Sir _John Fullerton_,
And this is his Lady I trow;
And this is Sir _John Puckering_,
Whom none of you did know.
That's the Earl of _Bridgwater_ in the middle,
Who makes no use of his Bladder;
Although his Lady lie so near him,
And so we go up a Ladder.
[Sidenote: Kate. _He took more pains, than I would ha done for a
Hundred such._]
_Edward_ the First, that Gallant Blade,
Lies underneath this Stone;
And this is the Chair which he did bring,
A good while ago from _Scone_.
In this same Chair, till now of late,
Our Kings and Queens were Crown'd;
Under this Chair another Stone
Doth lie upon the Ground.
[Sidenote: Ralf. _Gad I warrant there has been many a Maiden-head got
in that Chair._ Tom. _Gad and I'll come hither and try one of these
Days, an't be but to get a Prince._ Dol. _A_ Papist _I warrant him._]
On that same Stone did _Jacob_ sleep,
Instead of a Down Pillow;
And after that 'twas hither brought,
By some good honest Fellow.
_Richard_ the Second lieth here,
And his first Queen, Queen _Ann_;
_Edward_ the Third lies here hard by,
Oh! there was a Gallant Man.
For this was his two handed Sword,
A Blade both true and Trusty;
The _French_ Men's Blood was ne'er wip'd off,
Which makes it look so rusty.
Here he lies again, with his Queen _Philip_,
A _Dutch_ Woman by Record,
But that's all one, for now alass!
His Blade's not so long as his Sword.
King _Edward_ the Confessor lies
Within this Monument fine;
I'm sure, quoth one, a worser Tomb
Must serve both me and mine.
_Harry_ the Fifth lies there, and there
Doth lie Queen _Eleanor_;
To our first _Edward_ she was Wife,
Which was more than ye knew before.
_Henry_ the Third lies there Entomb'd,
He was Herb _John_ in Pottage;
Little he did, but still Reign'd on,
Although his Sons were at Age.
Fifty six Years he Reigned King,
E'er he the Crown would lay by;
Only we praise him, 'cause he was
Last Builder of the _Abby_.
Here _Thomas Cecil_ lies, who's that?
Why 'tis the Earl of _Exeter_;
And this his Countess is, to Die
How it perplexed her.
[Sidenote: Dol. _Ay, ay, I warrant her, rich Folks are as unwilling to
die as poor Folks._]
Here _Henry Cary_, Lord _Hunsdon_ rests,
What a noise he makes with his Name?
Lord Chamberlain was he unto
Queen _Elizabeth_ of great Fame.
[Sidenote: Sisly. _That's he for whom our Bells ring so often, is it
not_ Mary? Mol. _Ay, ay, the very same._]
And here's one _William Colchester_
Lies of a Certainty;
An Abbot was he of _Westminster_,
And he that saith no, doth lie.
This is the Bishop of _Durham_,
By Death here lay'd in Fetters;
_Henry_ the Seventh lov'd him well,
And so he wrote his Letters.
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